by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, January 24, 2023China has proposed a visit by a Chinese team to Nepal in February to hold a third round of discussions regarding the development of the Nepal-China Cross Border Transmission Line. A Joint Technical Group comprising representatives of the Nepal Electricity Authority and the State Grid Corporation of China had previously held two rounds of talks in China and Nepal, respectively, for the transmission line before…
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by Probir Kumar Sarker/S Bashu Das in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 17, 2023 The Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), or the Bom Party, surfaced on the scene last year after the Indian border forces arrested a dozen members with arms and ammunition in Mizoram. In October, law enforcers discovered that KNF was training members of a new militant group named Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya in exchange for money. Formed in 2017, the KNF aims at establishing…
by Dr Sadia Sulaiman in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2023.The TTP has made a comeback in Pakistan’s western border areas which saw an unprecedented surge in terrorist activities in 2022. In view of the evolving threat, the National Security Committee (NSC) met on January 2, 2023 and reiterated their policy of ‘zero tolerance’ for terrorism. Pakistan’s war on terrorism thus seems heading for a long haul. While the government’s sincerity to curb the terror…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023With the poor show in the November 20 federal and provincial polls and the rise of new forces from elections, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems to have felt the need for some hard work to keep itself relevant. To bolster its chances, the party has decided to go for a broader left unity. A meeting of office bearers of the ruling party on Saturday formed…
by S Dilip Roy in The Daily Star, Jan 7, 2023It has been 12 years since Felani, a Bangladeshi teenager, was shot dead by a member of India’s Border Security Force and left hanging from the barbed fence of the border along Kurigram, but her family is still waiting for justice. Felani’s murder case is pending with the Supreme Court of India. It has not yet been included in the judicial list. On the dawn…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 29, 2022The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has shelved its plan to set up a substation at Trishuli Bazaar for the Nepal-China Cross-border Transmission Line as it plans to connect the power line with a Ratmate-based substation to be built with the assistance of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a US aid agency. When the controversy over the MCC assistance was at its height before its eventual…
report in ToloNews.Dec 28, 2022The first part of the Termez International Trade Center on the border of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan was opened on Tuesday. Bakhtiar Roziof, head of the trade center, said the joint market has been created with the aim of developing economic and commercial cooperation between the businessmen of the two countries. The market has four thousand shops, a health center, a restaurant, and a separate area for production and logistics and the…
While it is a terifying thought that terror has returned to the country, this is now becoming an undeniable reality. From Bannu to Chaman, the past week has seen scenes of all-too-familiar violence play out, both inside the country and on the border. Delegations from Afghanistan and Pakistan have tried to chalk out strategies to avoid border skirmishes and to prevent cross-border terrorism but it is no more a question of resolving issues through engagement…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 21, 2022QUETTA: With the efforts of a 16-member jirga that visited Kandahar to meet the Taliban officials amid tense situation at Chaman border, a flag meeting held between Pakistan and Afghan authorities at Friendship Gate on Tuesday agreed to resolve all border issues through talks. At the flag meeting, which was postponed earlier on Saturday reportedly due to grouping among the Afghan officials on use of authority and taking…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2022QUETTA: As part of efforts to find a solution and restore peace at Pak-Afghan border at Chaman, a delegation comprising religious scholars and tribal elders from Chaman left for Kandahar on Monday, with the mandate to hold negotiations with Afghan Taliban leadership over the border clashes issue. “It is a 16-member delegation, headed by a prominent religious scholar Qari Aslam Alamyar, including tribal elders and prominent business leaders…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Dec 20, 2022ISLAMABAD: Although border clashes between Pakistan and Afghan forces are worrisome for general public and observers of conflict, Pakistani officials dealing with Afghan Taliban attribute these occurrences to lack of coordination between Kabul and its border security force. They are hopeful of amicable solution soon. “We are more comfortable dealing with the Taliban government than their predecessors in Kabul. Taliban are sincere in resolving the issues. You…